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| *** ART TO SAVOR *** | ||
| The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture Scuplture Painting Drawing | ed by Rolf Toman / publ by Thunder Bay Press [San Diego] / copyr 1995 / heavy, oversize hard cover / unclipped dj now in mylar / printed in Germany | 15 |
| Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington) | by David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, et al / Yale Univ Press / copyr 2006 / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the dj / does not appear to have been read | 50 |
| Captive Dreams: Photography of Razvan Voiculescu | photogr by Razvan Voiculescu / publ by Q-T-Raz / copyr 1999 / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the dj / appears not to have been read / #564 of a limited edition of 1000 | 50 |
| Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C) | ed by Michael Snodin / Yale Univ Press / copyr 2009 / hardcover / dj has very minor shelf wear / book appears to be brand-new, never read. | 30 |
| Olowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings | by Roslyn A Walker and Olowe / publ by National Museum of African Art / copyr 1998 / soft cover / book is tight and unmarked, with no sign of having been used / cover has very minor shelf wear | 30 |
| Passage to Vietnam: Through the Eyes of Seventy Photographers | created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt / publ by Against All Odds Productions and Melcher Media / copyr 1994 / oversize hard cover / unclipped dj now in mylar / dj has production defect wrinkling of the finish on the front dj flap / printed in Hong Kong | 15 |
| The Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonne | by Janet A Flint / publ by Hudson Hills / copyr 1982 / hardcover / text is tight and unmarked in spite of being ex-library / very little sign of it having been used / dj is protected by mylar | 50 |
| Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre | by Richard Thomson, et al / Princeton Univ Press / copyr 2005 / hard cover / book is tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the DJ / appears never to have been read | 25 |
| *** HISTORY IN DEPTH *** | ||
| The Alamo [Hardcover] | by John Myers Myers / publ by Dutton / copyr 1948 / hard cover with decorative gilt spine / no dj as issued / pages are tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the cover / book may not have been read / one of a limited first edition of 310 copies signed by the author | 75 |
| Commence Shooting!: A Navy Manual on War Photography: [classified as] Restricted | prepared by the Photographic Section, Bureau of Aeronautics, with the Collaboration of the Editors of Life Magazine and The March of Time Newsreel / copyr 1942 by Time Inc / printed on oversize magazine stock / cover wrap is 2/C (black plus blue) / contents in black & white / entire contents are present but many pages are loose and one page has been cut apart / 56 pgs plus cover wrap / reading copy, as is / rarely seen outside of university collections | 10 |
| Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context | by Lynne C Lancaster / Cambridge Univ Press / copyr 2005 / hard cover / the book is tight and unmarked and appears to be brand-new / there is some very minor shelf wear on the dj | 25 |
| The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome | ed by Edward Bispham, Thomas Harrison and Brian A Sparkes / Edinburgh Univ Press / copyr 2006 / hard cover / 616 pgs / book is tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the dj, which is now protected by mylar / does not appear to have been read | 30 |
| Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present (History & Warfare) | ed by John A Lynn / Westview Press / copyr 1994 / soft cover / appears never to have been read / cover is protected by mylar | 30 |
| International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War | by Denis MacShane / Clarendon Press / the book is tight and unmarked / dj has mild shelf wear and is a bit faded at the spine / looks like it has never been read | 40 |
| Japan & Its People: Intelligence Bulletin No. 6-45 / 3d Marine Division / [classified as: Restricted] | publ by 64th Engr Bn USAFMIDPAC (1 Sept 1945) / booklet with 35 numbered pgs in stapled wrap / no markings, as unread | 15 |
| United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1995 | by Roy A Grossnick and William J Armstrong / publ by Naval Historical Center / 4th ed, publ 1997 / hard cover / book is tight and unmarked / dj is slightly tattered along the top edge / looks like book has not been used | 20 |
| *** COLLECTIBLE TITLES *** | ||
| Bullfighting: An Illustrated Guide to the History, Practice, and Art of the Corrida, by a Premier American Matador | by John Fulton, intro by Barnaby Conrad / The Dial Press [NY] / copyr 1971, publ 1971 / stated 1st printing / hardcover in unclipped dj / book is tight with some foxing on the top page edges / front cover is slightly warped / dj has some shelf wear and a small stain on the back / included are two ticket stubs to a 1981 bull fight in Seville, Spain / author John Fulton was the first American to achieve the status of "matador de toros" in Spain / Fulton was also an artist and did the illustrations and artwork for this book as well as many other projects / the title page includes a full sketch of the head of a bull drawn and signed the author | 65 |
| Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women [Hardcover] | by Nora Ephron / publ by Alfred A. Knopf / 1st edition, copyr 1975 / hard cover book is tight and clean, with one small stain on the bottom page edges / dj is corner-cut and has a 1" tear along the top back edge, otherwise in very good condition | 60 |
| Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys | by Michael Collins / foreward by Charles Lindbergh / Farrar, Strauss and Giroux / copyr 1974 / 1st edition, 3rd printing / hard cover with dj / the book is tight, with some discoloration of the page edges / dj has mild wear but no major flaws / SIGNED on the front endpaper by the following three men: Werner von Braun, Frederick Ordway III, Michael Collins / includes a 1975 magazine clipping is affixed to the opposing front endpaper; it describes the Smithsonian member event where all three men appeared together for the launch of a von Braun book | serious offers only, photos are available |
| Cruel Shoes | by comedian and writer Steve Martin / publ by Press of the Pegacycle Lady / privately printed in Los Angeles / copyr 1977 / slender hard cover 48 pgs / no dj, as issued / front cover has pink title paste-on / dirt streak on the back side of the last page about the press run / stated 750 copies printed but this copy is not numbered | 50 |
| Crying in the Wilderness: The Struggle for Justice in South Africa | by Bishop Desmond Tutu / publ by William B Eerdmans Publishing Co [Grand Rapids, MI] / copyr 1982 / American Edition / soft cover / 125 pgs / chips in wrap missing at the top edge at the front spine / top edges starting to show foxing / appears as unread / inscription sign by Tutu at Estes Park, Colorado dated Jan 3 1984 [prior to Tutu's Nobel Peace Prize award in Oct 1984] | 30 |
| Die Kleine Seejungfer von Hans Christian Andersen (Band XX) / [The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, the artist's 20th book] | illustr by Sulamith Wulfing / SulamithWulfing-Verlag [publ by this German artist and illustrator] / printed by Wuppertal-Elberfeld / undated (circa 1953) / includes all 8 tipped plates with tissues / in goldstamped cardboard cover / in German / book is tight and unmarked / all the tipped-in plates still have their protective tissue pages / there is a tiny stain on one of the page edges, and very minor shelf wear on the cover / a beautiful book | 200 |
| Official White House China | by Margaret Brown Klapthor / publ by Harry A Abrams / copyr 1999 / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked and does not appear to have been used / very minor shelf wear on the dj / bookplate from the Senate Spouse's Luncheon, June 12, 2006, with Laura Bush's signature | 35 |
| A Remarkable Mother | by Jimmy Carter / Simon & Schuster / copyr 2008 / full number line so assumed first printing / hard cover in dj, appears as unread / publisher's sticker "Autographed Copy" on front dj / signed "J Carter" by the President on the title page | 25 |
| Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space | by Harrison H Schmitt / publ by Copernicus Books [NY] / copyr 2005 / 1st ed / book appears never to have been read / inscribed on the title page by the author, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the last man to walk on the moon | 200 |
| It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition | by Hillary Rodham Clinton / Simon & Schuster / copyr 1996 / anniv ed publ 2006 / the book appears to be brand-new, never read / signed by the author, Secretary of State Clinton | 50 |
| *** FICTION & LITERATURE *** | ||
| Bestiary: or The Parade of Orpheus | poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire / transl by Pepe Karmel / woodcuts by Raoul Dufy / publ by David R Godine [Boston] / copyr 1980 / small slender hardcover in dj / 66 pgs / woodcut design on the front binding / owner's bookplate on front endpaper / sunfading of the dj on the spine plus on the top edge of the front cover | 25 |
| Carved in Bone | first novel by Jefferson Bass / publ William Morrow / copyr 2006 / 7th printing / hard cover in dj / as unread / signed on title page by the two authors Jon Jefferson & Dr Bill Bass | 15 |
| The Godwulf Manuscript | first novel by Robert B Parker / Houghton Mifflin Company / copyr 1973 / book club edition / dj now in mylar | 25 |
| The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'Ang | by Stephen Owen / Yale Univ Press / copyr 1981 / hardcover / tight and unmarked except for previous owner's name and a few margin notes in chapters 2-4 / as is | 175 |
| The New Black Mask Quarterly | set of 8 trade paperbacks or the full run of a 1980's revival of Black Mask magazine from the 1920's and 1930's / copyr 1985-1987 / marked as First edition's / 7 show full letter lines A-J, with 1 book A-E / hard boiled fiction or pulp / authors featured include Robert B Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E Westlake, Loren D Estleman, Dashiell Hammett, Ed McBain, John D MacDounald | 35 |
| Once More with Footnotes | by Terry Pratchett / NESPA Press / copyr 2004 / hardcover / 1st edition, 3rd printing / appears to be brand-new, never read / dj also looks brand-new | 275 |
| Red Nails | by Robert E Howard / jacket illustr by Ken Kelly / authorized ed / publ by Berkley Putnam / copyr 1977 / book club edition / hard cover in dj / as unread / contains novelette plus 3 stories | 10 |
| "Shakespeare" Identified in Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, and Poems of Edward De Vere (Volume I) | by J Thomas Looney & Ruth Loyd Miller / publ by Kennikat / publ 1975 / hardcover / still shrink-wrapped. | 30 |
| A Time to Kill | first novel by John Grisham / publ Wynwood / BCE of 1st book / first state / dj now in mylar | 20 |
| *** SPECIAL INTERESTS *** | ||
| Dylan Thomas CD: The Caedmon Collection | HarperAudio / copyr 2002 / unabridged ed / all the disks appear to be in excellent condition, as is the box containing them | 25 |
| The E. W. Bullinger Companion Bible | edited by E Bullinger / Zondervan Bible Publishers / reprint ed 1974 / hard cover / tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the corners of the cover / the book appears not to have been used | 50 |
| Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst, Volume I | by David A Schum / Univ Press of America / copyr 1987 / hard cover, no dj / book is tight and unmarked / dark blue cover with silver lettering / previous owner has cut out a corner of the fly leaf, presumably to remove his name | 145 |
| *** Volume 2 is also available *** | ||
| An Introduction to Tensegrity | by Anthony Pugh / Univ of California Press / copyr 1976 / soft cover / the text is tight and unmarked / the cover has some shelf wear but no major flaws | 30 |
| Jungles | nature photography by Frans Lanting / ed by Christine Eckstrom / publ by Taschen / copyr 2000 / oversize hardcover now in mylar / printed in Spain | 15 |
| The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods | by Susanne C Brenner and L Ridgway Scott / publ by Springer / 2nd ed, publ 2002 / hard cover / book appears to be brand-new, never read | 20 |
| Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes | by Matthew Henry / Hendrickson Publ / 6 volume edition / publ 1991 / hard covers / all six volumes appear to be brand-new, never used / green set | 30 |
| Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs | by Lucy Maddox / Oxford Univ Press / copyr 1991 / hard cover / the text is tight and unmarked / dj has minor shelf wear / the upper corners of the book are slightly bumped / does not appear to have been read | 24 |
| Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans | by Tandy and Charles Hersh / Pennsylvania German Society / copyr 1991 / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked / dj has mild shelf wear on the edges, especially at the fold-backs / appears not to have been read | 50 |
| Sumerian Language: An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure (Mesopotamia) [Hardcover] | by Marie-Louise Thomsen / Akademisk Forlag [Denmark] / copyr 1984 / hard cover, no dj as issued / 1st edition / book is tight and unmarked / very minor shelf wear on the cover / appears not to have been used | 175 |
| *** HOBBIES / COOKING *** | ||
| The Art of Bedouin Jewellery: A Saudi Arabian Profile | by Heather Colyer Ross / publ by Arabesque Commercial SA [Switzerland] / copyr 1981 / ISBN 0907513018 / oversize hardcover in dj / dark green bindings with gilt titling on the spine / 132 pgs / printed in the Netherlands / ex-school library copy / Kingdom of Saudi Arabia official stamp on two pgs | 15 |
| Buccellati | by Vincent-Emmanuel Ragot / Assouline Publishing / copyr 2003 / hardcover / dj has some mild scuffing and a tiny bit of shelf wear at the top of the spine, but is now protected by mylar / the book appears not to have been used / beautiful book about the Italian jeweler Buccellati | 35 |
| Cooking of the Maharajas: The Royal Recipes of India [Hardcover] | by Shivaji Rao and Shalini Devi Holkar / publ by Viking / copyr 1975 / hard cover / no dj / very minor shelf wear on the cover / book appears to be brand-new, never used | 75 |
| English-Chinese hotel & restaurant handbook | by Lí Zĭ Shēn / publ in Hong Kong by San Yu Stationery & Pub. Co. in Hong Kong / publ 1972 / soft cover / 228 numbered pgs plus cocktail and wine guide / alpha English entries show Chinese characters / also various menus in English and French into Chinese characters | 20 |
| Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook | publ by Clarkson Potter / copyr 1997 / 1st ed / full print line so 1st printing / oversize hard cover in dj / bookplate signed by the author affixed to the front fly leaf | 15 |
| *** JUST FOR FUN *** | ||
| Confessions of an Advertising Man | by David Ogilvy / Atheneum / publ 1963 / 1st edition / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked / mild shelf wear on the dj and it is faded at the spine / appears not to have been read | 25 |
| Deadpool / Marvel Comics | Marvel Comics / volume 1, issues #1-5 / mint in orignal bag & board, as received from the donor | 65 |
| Jackill's Star Fleet Reference Manual: Ships of the Fleet, Volume III | by Eric Kristiansen / self-published / copyr 1995 / oversize perfect bound softcover / book is tight and unmarked, with only very minor shelf wear on the cover | 50 |
| [Lone Wolf and Cub / manga series] | by Kazuo Koike, art by Goseki Kojima / publ by Dark Horse Comics / 2001 ed, printed in Canada / cover price $9.99 US / volumes 1-14 [out of 28] / matching pb reprints, small size / cover crease on volume 9 only / spots on title page on volume 1 only / full number lines on volumes 1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13 | 75 |
| Steve McQueen: The Last Mile | by Barbara McQueen with Marshall Terrill / publ by Dalton Watson / copyr 2008 / hardcover / book is tight and unmarked except for a gift inscription / dj has very minor shelf wear | 25 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader | by Rick Priestley / publ by Games Workshop / copyr 1987 / paperback / the interior of the book is in brand-new condition / the previous owner wrapped the cover in protective plastic, which is starting to fray a little at the spine / publ in Chinese | 50 |
| *** ANTIQUARIAN *** | ||
| Harper's New Monthly Magazine | publ by Harper & Brothers [NY] / Volume LXI, Part 1 / No. 361 June 1880, No. 362 July 1880, No. 363 Aug 1880 / 488 pgs / binding 3/4 leather bound over marbled boards / plain endpapers / signs of water damage at top, near spine | 10 |
| The History of Poland from Its Origin as a Nation to the Commencement of the Year 1795 | by Stephen Jones / publ in 1795 by Verner and Hood / full leather binding / good for a book over 200 years old / the text is unmarked / the boards are very weakly attached to the spine, and the page with the attached folded map of Poland is loose / a previous owner's name is inside the front cover, which is worn, especially at the spine / apparently the first account of Polish history available in English / not a facsimile copy | 500 |
| Holly and Mistletoe: Tales translated from the German of Rosalie Koch | transl by Trauermantel / publ by Crosby, Nichols, and Company [Boston] / copyr 1859, publ 1859 / small hard cover / 249 pgs / binding is tight, spine is cocked / decorative embossing on both the front and back covers / decorative gilt on the spine of the title plus the images of children / 4/C frontispiece with tissue intact | 20 |
| Liber Psalmorum: in usum scholarum academicarum [editione utriusque testamenti tachnitiana] | by Carol Godofr Guilielmus Theile [Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile] / editio stereotypa / publ by Bernhardi Tauchnitz / publ 1851 / paginated 830-909 in Hebrew / front board is detached / handwritten notes in ink on title page, front and back covers / not a facsimile copy | 30 |
| The Life, Speeches, and Memorials of Daniel Webster: Containing His Most Celebrated Orations, A Selection of the Eulogies Delivered on the Occasion of His Death; And His Life and Times | by Samuel M Smucker / publ by Duane Rulison, Quaker City Publishing House [Philadelphia, PA] / copyr 1859, publ 1860 / fully leather bound / brightly gilt title on the decoratively embossed cover / gilt titling on the spine / binding is solid / water staining of pages but all pages separate and readable / 552 pgs / 2 steel engravings with tissues intact | 20 |
| Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: The Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, The Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, The Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years Ago: Illustrated | by L W Yaggy & T L Haines / publ by Lone Star Publishing House [Houston, TX] / copyr 1880, publ 1882 / binding 3/4 leather / gilt title on the cover plus gilt title on the spine / repair of spine with black tape / protective hard plastic jacket / binding is solid / all edges marbled / 944 pgs / frontispiece tissue intact | 25 |
| The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States | ed by Ralph Henry Gabriel / Liberty Bell ed, from the first press run of 1,500 copies / numbered set 1315 / copyr spanning 1925-1929 / 1st volume signed by the president of Yale at the time / oversize volumes are heavy and 3/4 leather bound, with elaborately gilt spines / top edges are gilt / 1st volume has owner's bookplate / frontispieces in 4/C / endpapers seem to be 3/C | 175 |
